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Matthew Schuler

Digg - US Intelligence: Second Life is a Potential Terrorist Haven! - 0 views

  • US intelligence officials are warning that web sites that enable users to adopt personas in three-dimensional online spaces also are creating security vulnerabilities by opening novel ways for terrorists and criminals to move money, organize, and conduct espionage...and to think, all this time we've looking in Afghanistan & Iraq for terrorists
Matthew Schuler

FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping - CNN.com - 0 views

  • The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
  • The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information -- from palm prints to eye scans.
Matthew Schuler

Khaleej Times Online - Cable damage hits 1.7m Internet users in UAE - 0 views

  • An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage
  • The submarine cable cuts in FLAG Europe-Asia cable 8.3km away from Alexandria, Egypt and SeaMeWe-4 affected at least 60 million users in India, 12 million in Pakistan, six million in Egypt and 4.7 million in Saudi Arabia.” A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each.
  • The first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January 23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not reported. This has not been repaired yet and the cause remains unknown
Adam Bohannon

America's Fastest-Growing Salaries - Anthropologists among the top 20 - 0 views

  • 8. Film and video editors edit soundtracks, film and video for the movies, and cable and broadcast television.Salary growth rate: 5.4 percentSalary: $62,958
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    Anthropology is #15
Matthew Schuler

Slashdot | Artificial Bases Added to DNA - 0 views

  • This raises the prospect of engineering life forms with genetic code not possible within nature, allowing new kinds of genetic engineering
Matthew Schuler

Businesses praise chips as privacy groups worry - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Already, microchips are turning up in some computer printers, car keys and tires, on shampoo bottles and department store clothing tags. They're also in library books and "contactless" payment cards
  • By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly "rifle through people's pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage — and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms — anytime of the day or night
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